Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts called a "miracle" comeback. The company spent an estimated $300 million to recall 31 million old packages of Tylenol capsules and promote new ones that were "triple sealed" to resist tampering. Now the company must restore confidence yet again. It will not be easy: the poisoned woman's mother described the plan to withdraw capsules from the market as "three years too late...
...Hannah (Mia Farrow) and her ex-husband Mickey (Woody Allen), none of the characters here can stake a claim to too much sympathy. Together they make up a collection of overgrown children. Hannah's husband Eliot (Michael Caine) longs for his wife's youngest sister (Barbara Hershey); her mother, an actress, is a boozy old flirt; her actor father is a vain failure, and rounding out this lot is Hannah's other sister, the cranky Holly (Diane Wiest...
Twenty years ago we had The Graduate in which a confused young man has an affair with the mother of the woman with whom he eventually elopes. Just two years ago we had Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love which turned The Scarlet Letter on its head and told us that adultery is a-okay...
...other top 20 students included a former army paratrooper who founded a student organization to combat student alcoholism and drunk driving, the managing editor of the Yale Daily News, and a 40-year old woman who works forty hours a week in a laboratory and is a step-mother of four...
...generation whose mothers went back to work. Our mothers struggled to balance kids and a job, and many of them fought for ERA. When I was a kid, I assumed that was my mother's battle. When I grew up, men and women would live in harmony, sharing rights and responsibilities. Maybe a woman president. Uh-huh. Maybe. But ERA lost. And I see myself facing the same balancing act my mother had to deal with...